James R Barrett: 3 books
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class...
The Irish Way
Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city.
In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban...
by Junius Irving Scales, Richard Nickson, Telford Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Born in 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Junius Scales, whose great-uncle had been governor of the state, grew up in the privileged environment of his family’s estate. The only black people he knew were the servants. Wanting to improve the lot of workers, mainly African-American, he joined the...